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Infantino is the nowhere man in this bonfire of greed, vanity and despotic power | World Cup 2022

Today I feel … largely invisible. Today I feel like a boggle-eyed despot-groupie. Today I feel like essence of human avarice distilled through a series of filters, poured into a dark suit and presented on stage looking like a discredited small-town mayor with a secret.

Today I feel like I really should, for the sake of world football, start to get a grip on this chaotic Fifa World Cup.

It is hard to know whether Gianni Infantino feels any of these things right now. It is nine days since Infantino delivered his opening press conference speech, his Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock moment, his I Have a Really Horrendous And Deluded Dream.

For all its hallucinogenic qualities, that speech suggested Fifa’s president intended to run this World Cup under strict standing orders. However, in the days since, the most notable aspect of Fifa’s presence at its own super-show is its diffidence.

Infantino has gone into stealth mode. Fifa itself has seemed marginalised. An organisation defined by control-freakery, its tendency to assume quasi-governmental powers while hovering over its host like an alien tripod, has gone quiet.

Even worse, this has happened just as fires have begun to break out across this thing. A cast ranging from an angry Carlos Queiroz, to the massed brain-shouts of social media, to Infantino himself, has continued to debate the rise of the global south and the decadence of Europe, as expressed via World Cup group standings.

Mohammed bin Salman continues to circle the feast. Antony Blinken has used Wales versus the USA as a platform to present to the world Uncle Sam shaking hands with its keenest current Middle Eastern ally.

And right now Qatar 2022 feels less like the usual soft-power stage, more like a kind of real-time super-Davos, Yalta with a K-pop soundtrack. Is this really the moment for a closed-circle monarchy to start driving the world’s greatest sporting spectacle?

There have been no more public Fifa briefings in Doha. This is not unusual as tournaments go. But it is unfortunate given the many issues arising. Reporters and football administrators have spoken of being passed back and forth between host nation and governing body, questions left unanswered. Fifa’s handling of the informal/nonexistent semi-ban of rainbow items has involved vague, delayed statements. There is a sense of waiting always for the nod from the Supreme Delivery Committee.

Gianni Infantino with Yasser Al-Mishal, president of the Saudi football federation, and Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki, Saudi Arabia’s sport minister. — Gianni Infantino with Yasser Al-Mishal (left), president of the Saudi football federation, and Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki, Saudi Arabia’s sport minister. Photograph: Reuters

Nobody puts Gianni in the corner. Except, it would seem, Hassan Abdullah al-Thawadi, chief executive of Qatar 2022, who some say is having a significant final pass on key details that affect supporters, federations, world football generally.

The past few days have seen confusion over the right to express even the most broadly sketched political views, most notably the spectacle of stadium guards taking away Iranian protest flags. Fifa’s statutes contain a commitment to “respecting all recognized human rights” and “striving to promote the protection of these rights”. This is in effect part of Infantino’s job description.

And yet it seems T-shirts with words as inoffensively universal as “Women” and “Freedom” are now banned in Fifa-land. Meanwhile Iran and Qatar share the world’s largest gas field. You really think you’re in control?

The end result is a dangerous and rancorous mess. Fifa and Qatar always looked the perfect fit, the perfect master and client-state. In the event Qatar appears to have overwhelmed its enablers, seized the starship controls and confined the captain to his quarters. At times one half expects to find Qatari government officials out there sternly pronouncing on refereeing appointments, player of the match gongs and the fact Gareth Southgate MUST now pick Phil Foden or squander a golden legacy.

This matters, because it is getting hot out here. The soundtrack of Qatar 2022 is a glaze of hope, love, We-Are-The-Dreamers stuff, undercut by a babbling undertone of anger and macro-grudges.

This runs right from Queiroz and Jürgen Klinsmann going toe-to-toe over cultural slights, to Serbia’s dressing-room flag reclaiming Kosovo, to John Herdman’s statement (Why John, why?) that Canada would “fuck” Croatia, to government ministers on all sides wading into the cultural frictions.

Fifa has bowed to Qatar’s will on the armband-of-love, even as Qatari officials wear their Palestinian rights symbols in the seats. LGBTQ+ bodies have called on Infantino to speak out, to feel as gay as he did nine days ago when he stood before the world as Football Jesus and promised love, harmony and a level of basic governance.

Instead Fifa’s most recent public guidance on all this is to announce that Germany are under investigation for not putting a player up at their press conference; and that the media need to use cabled internet connections as the press box wifi is in crisis. Thanks for that.

Meanwhile Infantino sits on top of this bonfire of greed, vanity and despotic power like a boggle-eyed Guy Fawkes mannequin, occasionally paraded about the place in his wheelbarrow or allowed to stand in the VVIP box and crunch his toffee apple for the cameras.

This leadership vacuum matters beyond simply the chaos on the ground. Fifa’s unchallenged primacy, its endless growth, is not a given. There has already been talk of some European nations getting itchy feet. Plans have been mooted now and then for a European and South American breakaway. Money, and the ongoing primacy of money, suggest the World Cup is too valuable to nobble itself in this way. But bridge-building and concessions are part of its success. Nothing lasts forever.

Infantino was supposed to be a technocrat when he took the top job, a safe-ish pair of hands after the debauchery of the Blatter years. He has turned out to be something much harder to gauge. Who is this person anyway? A despot’s glove puppet? An oleaginous pinocchio? A highly competent dissembler, smart enough to give a speech the western media see as deluded, but which was also perfectly pitched towards the Fifa members who will keep him in power?

With Blatter there was evidence of simple human vanity, the dreams of a Nobel Peace Prize and so on. The question of what Infantino wants is less clear. One remarkable aspect of Qatar’s control of this World Cup is that Infantino has not blinked, has not wavered in his total support. Either he simply loves power, or those powers have a degree of leverage over him that is not immediately clear.

More likely this game is being played at a level beyond such petty concerns as order on the ground. There may be fraught and divisive days in store before the final whistle. But Fifa is still expected to rake in a record $7.5bn (£6.3bn) from this messiest and most divisive of World Cups.

Saudi Arabia 2030 seems to be hardening as a possibility every day. Ignore the white noise. Just keep your eyes on the balance sheet. You get the leaders you deserve, or in football’s case the leaders your leader most wants to stand next to. Either way the global game has never looked quite so managed and muzzled and at the same time so out of control.

Gianni Infantino and Fifa have failed football by botching buildup to Qatar | World Cup 2022

If only the World Cup could be about the football. Last week, Fifa sent a letter to the football authorities of the 32 competing nations to urge them to “focus on the football” and to ensure it is not “dragged into every ideological or political battle”. Which is fine so long as you are not gay, a woman, a migrant labourer, a believer in democracy or a person with a conscience – or indeed any of the people Gianni Infantino claimed to be in his risibly hypocritical speech on Saturday.

This is, of course, the same Fifa president who was at Davos earlier in the year and who last Tuesday spoke at the G20 summit in Bali, calling for a ceasefire in Ukraine for the duration of the World Cup – a laudably neutral position, providing you are unaware Ukraine has just recaptured Kherson and has momentum such that any pause in the fighting is of clear advantage to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Infantino, coincidentally, was awarded the Order of Friendship by Putin in 2019 after Russia had hosted the World Cup. How complicated these things are! Thank goodness Infantino overcame the ginger jibes to do the politics for us.

So to take him at his word and focus on the football – which is, after all, the reason Fifa exists – the idea that football’s authorities actually have the good of football at heart is laughably naive. Any governing body that cared more about the game would not deliver bloated tournaments such as the Euros that feature the mucky compromise of best third-place teams going through. That means a lot of games lack jeopardy, while teams who play later have the advantage of knowing exactly what they need to do to progress. It is not yet clear how the 48 teams will be arranged for the next World Cup but it is hard to see a good way, so we should probably enjoy the clean simplicity of eight groups of four while we still can.

In an ideal world teams would be turning up refreshed and prepared. There would have been a break after the domestic season ended so squads could have a couple of weeks together to fine-tune systems. Some sides have done that but any player based in England, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal or the Netherlands had a week. Clearly that is not enough. There have never been fewer than 16 days (and 20-24 is more usual) between the Champions League final and the start of a World Cup – which means most players have had around four weeks to prepare.

It is true that a lot of teams played in either the Euros or the Copa América last summer or in the Africa Cup of Nations earlier this year and so, for some, the preparation is already largely done. But there has been little chance for teams to experiment or make changes since: in common with most of Europe, England’s past six games were all in the Nations League, and four of those came in June when the players were exhausted.

Come September for the final two Nations League games that also doubled as World Cup preparation, Gareth Southgate, to take one example, was left in effect with a choice of either picking Harry Maguire to see if he could still prosper with the national team despite struggling at Manchester United or trialling possible replacements on the left side of central defence. He opted to stick with what he knew so neither Fikayo Tomori nor Marc Guéhi is in England’s 26 while Maguire is almost certain to start, despite his indifferent form.

Southgate, presumably, would also have liked a friendly or two to see how Ivan Toney, or indeed James Maddison, fared in an England system before making the decision to select the latter and discard the former. But there has been no opportunity.

Will that matter? For teams that were fairly settled, perhaps not too much. Argentina won the Copa América and can rumble on. Senegal won the Cup of Nations and have essentially been building for four years. Injuries to Giovanni Lo Celso and Sadio Mané complicate matters but essentially they know what they are doing. But Ghana, for instance, have installed an entirely new coaching structure since the Cup of Nations and would probably have benefited from more than two friendlies between the summer and naming their squad.

The Cup of Nations offers clear evidence of the lack of preparation time. Because of the compressed calendar and Covid protocols, no side had more than a week of buildup and many found themselves training with reduced squads. So the first round of games was extremely risk-averse, with most teams preferring to sit deep and few having had time to develop the fluency to overcome such tactics. Those fixtures yielded only 1.12 goals per game, as against 2.06 for the rest of the tournament.

It may be that that checks the direction in which international football has seemed to be going. Portugal won Euro 2016 and France reached the final of that tournament and won the 2018 World Cup with grim cussedness, keeping things tight and looking to nick a goal from a set piece or via a moment of brilliance from a forward. It is that model, with limited pressing, that Southgate’s England largely follow.

Other contenders, though, seem to have moved on: it may not be as sophisticated as the top club sides but Spain and Germany, even Brazil and Argentina, play a form of pressing game. Perhaps the muscle memory is strong enough for them to be able to pick up their style straight away but, if not, there could be an advantage for the more rigid, lower-block sides such as England, France and Portugal.

But the point is less what a successful style is likely to be than that the schedule of the competition is having an impact upon, and perhaps even slowing, the evolution of the game. Judge Fifa on the football? Happily: apart from all the more serious issues, Fifa has failed the sport it is supposed to govern and protect.

Gianni Infantino does his Football Jesus act during bizarre monologue on Qatar | World Cup 2022

An hour into his own pin-drop monologue, delivered from the stage of the vast, tiered amphitheatre of Doha’s main media centre, Gianni Infantino rose unexpectedly in his seat and spread his arms in crucifixion pose, wrists cocked, head tilted tenderly to one side. “You can crucify me. I’m here for that. Don’t criticise anyone. Don’t criticise Qatar.” And in that moment it became clear what we were watching. Here he is: Football Jesus. Behold for He walks among us.

Does Football Jesus not bleed for you? Does He not accept medals from Vladimir Putin on your behalf? Like Actual Jesus, is He not (not literally) struck down (not actually struck down) by the stones (not real stones) of the unjust, the heretical, the human rights charities?

A little later Infantino briefly became Football Mandela (“Do we want to continue to divide? Do we want to spit on others because they look different?” asked the man who has promoted what is in effect a racially segregated society). But mainly he was Football Jesus. And what is really clear, the one thing nobody should doubt, is that Football Jesus had a message in Doha. And that message was … well, what exactly?

Infantino spoke for an hour and a half in total. At times the spectacle was so captivatingly grotesque you didn’t want to breathe or cough for fear of breaking the magic.

Because this speech was also Infantino’s moment. This was his Imagine, his I Have a Dream, his Earth Song, his Now We Move on to Liars. With this screed of whining imperial discontent, I declare this World Cup open.

Really, though, in between the pull quotes and the killer lines, Infantino’s performance was something far more disturbing. This was the sound of a man who seems not just tired and angry but oddly hollowed out, who has spent so long residing close to death and to corruption by others that it has begun to rot him from the inside like a dead fish.

The opening remarks will take the headlines. Striding to his podium with an air of grandiose faux humility, Infantino paused, let the silence gather, then shared his feelings. “Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel [like] a migrant worker.”

It is tempting to marvel at the virtuosity here. Accused of betraying the rights of assorted minority groups, of promoting only the interests of the powerful, in the space of three short seconds Infantino wore gay face, he wore African face, he wore disabled face.

Most cynically, Fifa’s president dressed himself up in the clothes of a deceased migrant worker killed building that £4bn cash machine. Later on, explaining his struggle against prejudice as a white man in Switzerland, he brandished his own red hair and freckles like a magician triumphantly producing a rabbit from a bowler hat.

It was, it goes without saying, a wretched spectacle – not to mention myopic, tin-eared and oddly lost. Either side of which Infantino basically talked a lot of horse shit. There will be wider fact checks available on the many half-truths and misleading angles spouted here. Some stood out.

At one point Infantino seemed to be saying that Qatar offers hope and succour to the poor and desperate people of the world, whereas Europe closes its borders and refuses to help. There are a great many things wrong with the UK. But it is also a longstanding complaint that Qatar is profoundly opposed to helping asylum seekers and refugees. Last year Qatar took just 197 refugees despite having a war on its doorstep and being one of the world’s richest nations. Zambia took 75,000. The UK took 137,000. Infantino is not just dissembling here, he is simply wrong.

There was plenty more of this stuff. Infantino suggested his own trip to Iran had brought peace and tolerance to the nation. “If a few thousand women in Iran are happier because of me, then I will take every criticism,” he schmoozed, which will certainly come as interesting information to the women of embattled, brutally patriarchal Iran.

He boasted about Fifa’s new human rights strictures on World Cup bids. “So would Qatar be allowed to apply as a host now?” he was asked. “Yes of course because the World Cup is open to all,” Infantino bounced straight back.

At times like these you see his thin but dogged talent, the thing that has put him on that stage, the sense of a giant marzipan man oozing into whatever shape fits the moment, sliding under the door out of reach, altering the contours of his face – marzipan concern, marzipan defiance – as it turns from side to side.

He did make some legitimate points. Fifa’s basic argument is that things in Qatar are not perfect, but they are better than they were. And that nobody but Fifa has addressed these issues, which is true if you ignore everyone else who has been addressing these issues for years. But the World Cup has undoubtedly made some things happen.

He is also right that the cancellation of beer sales within the stadium complex is not such a huge issue in itself. The fat end of the wedge is, frankly, already upon us. Drinking beer is not a human right, not least in an Islamic country. If the hosts are uncomfortable, whenever that emerges, frankly it is hard to argue back.

Aside from all that, beneath the faux concern and the cod-statesman stuff, the base note of this extraordinary show was rage. Infantino is clearly furious with his critics, furious that this thing cannot be bent to his will. And by the end it had become hugely engrossing just to see someone so blind to his own contortions, so shameless, and quite clearly losing his grip on his own spectacular.

Infantino announced at one point that he feels “200% in control” of this World Cup, which sounds like the kind of thing someone might say just as their World Cup rears up and gallops off into a creak. Not least when that World Cup is already reeling from sponsor slap-down, shifting dates and constant noises off.

This is the most alarming part of Gianni’s song, the Infantino Monologues. For all the inanity and toxic spin, one fact remains. That person up there, Corporate Spartacus, with his gay-migrant-African call to arms, is actually in charge of this show, caretaker of this shared sporting jewel. The global game, always such a faithful reflection of the global times, has rarely looked so busted, so loose on its hinges, so out of control.

‘I feel like a migrant worker’: Gianni Infantino hits out at World Cup criticism | World Cup 2022

The Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, has hit back at criticism of Qatar from Europe in a press conference on the eve of the World Cup.

The game’s global governing body has been attacked for its decision to take the finals to Qatar, where the treatment of migrant workers and the rights of LGBTQ+ people have been in the spotlight leading up to the finals.

“We have [been] told many, many lessons from some Europeans, from the western world,” Infantino said on Saturday. “I think for what we Europeans have been doing [for] the last 3,000 years we should be apologising for [the] next 3,000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people.”

Infantino began his speech by saying: “Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arabic. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel [like] a migrant worker.

“Of course I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not African, I am not gay, I am not disabled. But I feel like it, because I know what it means to be discriminated [against], to be bullied, as a foreigner in a foreign country.

“As a child I was bullied – because I had red hair and freckles, plus I was Italian so imagine. What do you do then? You try to engage, make friends. Don’t start accusing, fighting, insulting, you start engaging. And this is what we should be doing.”

Infantino ended his hour-long press conference with an instruction to assembled journalists not to criticise the host nation. “If you need to criticise anybody, don’t put pressure on the players, the coaches.

“You want to criticise. You can crucify me. I’m here for that. Don’t criticise anyone. Don’t criticise Qatar. Let people enjoy this World Cup.”

World Cup offers ‘unique platform’ to pursue Ukraine peace, claims Fifa chief | World Cup 2022

The head of football’s world governing body, Fifa, issued a plea on Tuesday for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine for the duration of the World Cup, calling for all sides to use the tournament as a “positive trigger” to work towards a resolution.

Gianni Infantino, speaking during a lunch with leaders of the G20 major economies on the Indonesian island of Bali, said the month-long World Cup, which starts in Qatar on Sunday, offered a unique platform for peace.

“My plea to all of you, to think on a temporary ceasefire for one month for the duration of the World Cup, or at least the implementation of some humanitarian corridors or anything that could lead to the resumption of dialogue as a first step to peace,” Fifa’s president said.

“You’re the world leaders, you have the ability to influence the course of history. Football and the World Cup are offering you and the world a unique platform of unity and peace all over the world.”

Russia reached the quarter-finals of the last World Cup in 2018, which it hosted, but has been barred from this tournament over its invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine came close to qualifying for Qatar but lost out to Wales in a deciding playoff in June.

Infantino noted that Russia hosted the 2018 edition and Ukraine is bidding to hold the 2030 contest, and as many as 5.5 billion people are expected to watch this year’s event, which could give a message of hope. “Maybe the current World Cup, starting in five days, can be that positive trigger,” he said.

‘There’s so many having major moral thoughts’: England fans conflicted over Qatar World Cup | Qatar

Andy Payne has supported England at every World Cup bar one for the past 40 years – but when it was announced that Qatar would host in 2022, he hesitated. “There’s so many people, including me, quite rightly having major moral thoughts on all this,” he says.

In the end, he and his wife, Kirsty, decided to go – but his usual T-shirt and shorts will be adorned with a bright rainbow armband, while Kirsty will wear a large rainbow hat.

“It’s a World Cup and England are there so we will go out, but wearing as much rainbow gear as we possibly can so we can do our piece to represent England and progress in the world,” he says.

Before the World Cup kicks off next Sunday, many fans concerned about Qatar’s human rights record and stance on LGBTQ+ rights are feeling conflicted, with some deciding to boycott the event, bars choosing not to show games and sponsors hiding.

The former Bayern Munich and Germany player Philipp Lahm said he would not attend the tournament, while the Lionesses centre-back Lotte Wubben-Moy said she would not be watching. Barcelona and Paris are among multiple European cities that will not show World Cup matches in public places or set up “fan zones”. Giant banners declaring “Boycott Qatar 2022” have been a familiar sight at European grounds for months.

Hosting the World Cup has put an unprecedented spotlight on Qatar’s human rights record. Reports suggest migrant workers who constructed stadiums endured “persistent and widespread labour rights violations”. According to Guardian analysis, about 6,500 migrant workers have died since Fifa members voted in 2010 to award the 2022 tournament to the Gulf state.

A recent survey found six out of 10 British people believe Qatar’s stance on gay rights – homosexuality is illegal, attracting punishments of up to seven years in prison – should have barred it from hosting. This week an ambassador for the tournament described homosexuality as “damage in the mind”.

On Wednesday Di Cunningham, the co-founder of the Three Lions Pride group, said no one from the England-based group would go to Qatar because there was “no sign … of any appetite to relax or review the toxic environment there is for LGBTQ+ and other minority groups”.

Di Cunningham, the co-founder of the Three Lions Pride group and LGBTQ+ rights campaigner, said no one from the group would be travelling to Qatar. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Sandra Tyrie, the manager of the Liverpool Arms pub in Chester, said it had decided not to show any matches – and since the decision others have followed suit. “We spoke to our customers and we just felt promoting it wasn’t doing any good for our community,” she says. “We just wanted to use the small voice we’ve got to speak out.”

But despite pleas to all competing nations from the president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, to “let football take the stage” in Qatar, and keep quiet about politics – many are refusing to toe the line.

On Thursday, the England manager, Gareth Southgate, said it was “highly unlikely” England would comply, while the Football Association has announced the England captain, Harry Kane, will wear a OneLove armband in Qatar. “We stand for inclusivity, and we’re very, very strong on that,” said Southgate.

Others who will travel to the country are deciding to use the opportunity to try to open debate in a place where freedom of speech is stymied. The BBC pundit and former footballer Pat Nevin said like others travelling to cover the tournament he would keep his “eyes and ears open”, adding: “Those of us who come from countries with allegedly free speech, we will not be quiet and we will say what we feel.”

Billy Grant, the co-presenter of Brentford FC’s Beesotted podcast and a travelling England fan since 1990, said many supporters were staying at home. Some were doing so because of costs and the timing of the tournament, which was rescheduled for winter to avoid Qatar’s overwhelming summer heat, others such as a gay friend from America said they did not feel safe.

Gareth Southgate announces the England World Cup 2022 squad — The England manager, Gareth Southgate, said it was ‘highly unlikely’ his side would keep quiet about Qatar’s human rights record. Photograph: Barrington Coombs/Getty Images

But Grant said the tournament was also an opportunity for cultural exchange. “When you start talking with locals you have more of an opportunity to change things than anybody can do at home,” he says. “We know this is sports washing – but while switching off the football and watching Coronation Street might make you feel better, it’s not going to change anything.”

Payne agrees, and says many fans who are travelling will – respectfully – be speaking their minds, maybe even from the stands. His ambition is to start a new chant, based on the chorus of the 1978 song by the Tom Robinson Band: (Sing If You’re) Glad to Be Gay. “If I can get some of the boys to start it, then you never know if it will catch on,” he says. “Watch and listen to this space.”

‘Let football take the stage’ at Qatar World Cup, says Fifa president | World Cup 2022

The president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, has written to all 32 competing nations at this month’s World Cup, urging them to “let football take the stage” in Qatar.

An unusual plea to both football associations and players to put political and human rights concerns to one side for the duration of the tournament, Infantino’s communication comes just two weeks before the start of competition and with a number of concerns on the part of both FAs and non-governmental organisations yet to be resolved.

In his letter, Infantino is understood to attempt to defuse concerns over the staging of the tournament in Qatar by arguing that there are political problems in much of the world and that football should not be expected to have an answer to every one. Regarding concerns over the safety of travelling fans in the country he reiterates a promise that “everyone is welcome regardless of origin, background, religion, gender, sexual orientation or nationality”, a more detailed commitment than that currently made by the hosts.

Infantino, who has been president of Fifa since 2016, did not preside over the decision to award this year’s tournament to the Gulf state, and has overseen a series of initiatives that have helped contribute towards reforms – including the abolition of the kafala system of employment – to Qatar. But he has also been effusive in his praise for the event and its hosts, claiming frequently that the country will deliver the “best ever” World Cup and argues that the presence of the world’s most popular sporting event will help bring about lasting change in the country.

A number of competing nations, however, are still waiting for Fifa to respond to a variety of appeals related to the tournament. One such is a pledge to provide funds to remedy the harm experienced by migrant workers in constructing World Cup stadia. A scheme endorsed by the Welsh, English and Dutch FAs as well as the US Soccer Federation, a commitment from Fifa is yet to be forthcoming.

This week, the Welsh FA also confirmed it was still waiting for a response as to whether a decision to wear rainbow armbands in support of LGBTQ+ rights in Qatar will be subject to a ban from the game’s governing body.

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